TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2195, 15 October 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

FEB PHIiSS ASSOCIATION

SPIRITUALIST MEDIUMS

Auckland, October 14. Honest believers in spiritualistic phenomena • have Avritten to Cancn M'Muiray, Vicar of St. Mary's Cathedral, commenting on a- recent sermon he delivered on the subject. Referring to this correspondence during a sermon on Sunday evening, he said it was impossible to read them without feeling sympathy and sorrow.' Others wore from professional mediums, one of whom (a lady) stated that she had five children, all of whom were mediums and she maintained them by her earnings as a medium. "If you can get me a better living," she wrote, "well and good. As it is, I have a brass plate and an office; I am Avell known and am treated as a lady; whereas if I wished to earn mv living Otherwise I should probably be given somebody's washing to do." Further on'she remarked that it was certainly true that the devil (as he would say) Avas keeping her and her five children in comfort, but was she to be blamed when tho washtub was the alternative? The lady's letter, added the Canon, had at least the merit of can. dour. .... THE WRECKED TYRONE. Dunedin, October 11. It is understood that a tender of a , Port Chalmers syndic-ate (known as ' the Koutai Syndicate) has been accepted for 'salvaging the gear and cargo of tlie Avrecked steamer. Tyrone. This afternoon thirteen officers (deck and engine room) and 10 seamen from the Tyrone sailed by the ; Monowai for Wellington, where" they will embark on the Ruapehu for Lon. don. . Captain Beaumont (Superintendent of Mercantile Marine*) lias been Aery busy during the past few days arranging passages. When London is reached, the officers will be distributed to their homes by the Board of Trade. LORD LIVERPOOL'S VISIT TO HAWERA. HaAvera. October 14. His Excellency tho Governor mid Countess of Liverpool paid their first visit to the t-OAvn this afternoon. They were presented Avith an address of Avelcome from the citizens. The party 'left later for Wanganui. SCHOOL MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. Timaru. October 14. A deputation from the local branch of the Teachers' Institute waited on the Education Board to-day to point out difficulties iii. the Avay of carrying out the medical examination of children. A large amount of time Avould bo required for the examination and clerical Avork and there would be a difficulty in one-room schools. To make an examination properly a pupil must be partly stripped and male teachers cannot strip big girls nor female'teachers big boys. The Board decided to hold the matter over, as the demands on the teachers' time Avould appear to be excessive. POST AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE. Wellington, October 14. The Post and Telegraph Department classification list Mas issued this afternoon in a Supplementary Gazette. The schedules of salaries tor the professional, clerical and general divisions prefixed to the list show the fixed annual increments of officers in the diffiereiit classes of each division. The Public Service Commissioner in a preparatory note states that any officer dissatisfied -Avith the classification may forward an appeal in terms of section 31 of the Act. Any appeal likely- to reach Wellington later than thirty days after to-day (October 14th) must be accompanied by evidence showing that the list was I not in the appellants' hands more than thirty days before posting of the appeal to the Commissioner. . NO-LICENSE "AFFAIRS. Hawcra. October 15. The Hawcra No-License League' last night passed resolutions urging upon Parliament the necessity of passing before next election legislation renioA-ing, ,or at least reducing, the three-fifths handicap on the'tern-' .peraneo voto, an durging all sympathisers to pledge themselves, regardless of political party, at the forthcoming election, not to vote for any candidate who will not undertake, if ejected, to do his utmost to remove or at least substantially reduce the unfair handicap on both issues—nolicense and national prohibition. END OF'A TROUBLED LIFE. Hastings, October 15. Carl Ritz, 53. years of age, a native of Austria, who took poison on Monday,/lied last night. Ho left a letter, addressed to his employer, in which ho stated his lite had been one long mental.trouble. Ritz, who was employed as a gardener in Horron's nurseries, Avas iii comfortable circumstances and wns yaid to be avcll connected. INVESTIGATION ORDERED. Gtsborue, October Jo. With reference to the death of Harry Florey, an eldoily man who was found dea, don tho beach at Tcararoa. the Coroner ordered'a full invcstigaiion into the circumstances, the local constable, having reported that deceased, in consequence ol an offeiisivo act, had been put ou a hoi so and sent out uf the- township.